Journal article
Impact of obesity and SARS-CoV-2 infection: implications for host defence - a living review
- Abstract:
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The role of obesity in the pathophysiology of respiratory virus infections has become particularly apparent during the current severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic, where obese patients are twice as likely to suffer from severe coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) than healthy weight individuals. Obesity results in disruption of systemic lipid metabolism promoting a state of chronic low-grade inflammation. However, it remains unclear how these underlying metabo...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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Funding
Wellcome Trust
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Bibliographic Details
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Oxford Open Immunology Journal website
- Volume:
- 2
- Issue:
- 1
- Place of publication:
- England
- Publication date:
- 2021-01-21
- Acceptance date:
- 2021-01-05
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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2633-6960
- Pmid:
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34192269
Item Description
- Language:
- English
- Keywords:
- Pubs id:
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1164009
- Local pid:
- pubs:1164009
- Deposit date:
- 2021-11-05
Terms of use
- Copyright holder:
- Richter et al.
- Copyright date:
- 2021
- Rights statement:
- © The Author(s) 2021. Published by Oxford University Press. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
- Licence:
- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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